Theory of the human sensations / by Marmaduke Berdoe.

  • Marmaduke Berdoe
Date:
1773
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Theory of the human sensations / by Marmaduke Berdoe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    lain as it were for feveral days together in a trance, without any apparent de¬ gree of fentiment or motion, and who foon after have performed all the vital functions with the fame regularity as before the accident. For I might in ftriftnefs obferve, even in this cafe that the diaphragm will appear to be at leaft, the point of appuy, for the mufcular forces of the body. All that I want to prove, is, that from its continued and almoft incelfant aftion, it forms a gene¬ ral center towards which the nervous influence,* ought as conftantly to be di¬ rected.—If this is allowed, I aflert that there mull be an intimate and continued connection between the brain, and the * Bv the nervous influence I mean that pecu¬ liar property by which the various nerves of the human body perform its different functions. It may perhaps be a nervous fluid, or an electric principle, but this at prefent is foreign to our defign.